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Jennings Elementary School
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M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Jennings Elementary School
Set in QUINCY, Michigan, Jennings Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary campus, part of Quincy Community Schools. It works with 408 students across grades K through 5.
Across the 3 schools in Quincy Community Schools (1,099 students total), Jennings Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Jennings Elementary School logs that nearly all students (90%) are White. The remainder comes out to 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. Compared to Branch County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Jennings Elementary School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. The state averages about 15.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Branch County (around 58%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Jennings Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 50.0%; this one comes in at 36.0%, -14.0 points off the demographic line.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Branch County) logs that median household income runs about $63,724, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Jennings Elementary School is one of 18 public schools in Branch County (combined enrollment of about 6,546 students).
The closest other public school is Quincy High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Jennings Elementary School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.6%.
The campus sits in an outlying setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 9%: 446 students in 2018 compared to 408 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.
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